January 27, 2025 • 48 mins
Fresh from the archives, this is a talk on the Revival of Magick that I gave at the now-defunct Catland Books in Brooklyn, NY in 2014. The quality is so-so as it was filmed on a handheld digital camcorder, but I've done my best to clean up the sound and video. In the talk, I discuss how 3rd millennium magick radically differs from the magick of the 2nd millennium, and talk about Terence McKenna, shamanism, the Book of the Law and lots more.
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Yes, hello, it's Jason Louv and welcome back to the Ultraculture Podcast.
This episode is fresh from the archives. This is a talk on the revival of magic
that I gave at the now defunct Catland Books in Brooklyn, New York in 2014.
The quality is not perfect because it was recorded on a handheld camcorder.
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But while I was working on Adept Initiative, I found this entire speech that
somehow had evaded my grasp on a hard drive, and it's a very, very good speech.
So in this talk, I discuss how third millennium magic radically differs from
the magic of the second millennium and talk about all the hits,
Terrence McKenna, shamanism, the book of the law, and lots, lots more.
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All right, you're really going to dig this you can watch the video version at
the magic me youtube just search magic me on youtube and make sure to like and
subscribe when you go there all right.
Music.
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So uh hi i'm jason lou i just got off the plane from l.a it's like three in the morning,
And let's see. So I run a blog called Ultra Culture at ultraculture.org,
which is about... Is this on, by the way? Yeah, I can see a lot of it.
And I published several books on the occult.
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The first one was Generation Hex, which is an anthology of writing on occult
that came out disinformation in 2005,
which was a fact-holder lore and a call to youth revolution and a call,
renaissance, which all of a sudden is happening, which I'm really excited about,
especially here at Safety Ground Zero.
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I also added the Sighted Bible with Genesis, right?
Yours, can you say that? I'm telling you all the magical and the cold writings
of several psychic years in the eighties, which was a group that popularized,
I'm sure you have one outside,
but it was a group that popularized, magnetic, buying, pure saying, acid house,
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and really played the foundation for the cold revival we're experiencing right now.
So, my talk tonight is just about math, just basic, and I'm assuming everyone here is okay with that.
We're like in like a six-fix year, everyone is like on the level about that,
I don't know if you trust us that at all.
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So to get on to that topic, I wasted my 20s, right?
Running all over the world, learning the secrets of the occult from various cultures.
And let's see, I ran around, I learned chaos magic, ceremonial magic,
spent a lot of time running with Genesis Purge, became a Sufi,
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became a Freemason, went to India, became an initiator as a Nepali, a digital shaman.
And later Gabby got a day job.
So that's where I'm coming from. And I was asked to speak tonight,
so I'd like to share some of that fucked up world here with you.
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So let's get into it. Let's talk about magic.
And let's try to leave as much of the nonsense as we can on how to be a quake here.
Because there's a lot of it in the subject, and the topic is so vast,
we've covered so much ground, and it goes back to the beginnings of human history,
that there's a lot to filter through.
So I just want to give you the basics, which for a lot of you may be out level
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with that already, but please store questions for the end and really good questions.
If you have technical questions with magic, I'm happy to answer those as well.
So what is magic? Magic is the first belief system of humanity,
the first, before science, religion, anything, and it will be the last.
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Magic is mankind's natural way of the world.
Underneath the social conditioning, the layers of religion and economic and
sexual repression and bullshit ideology and all of that, the character armory,
as well as I would call it,
we are innately whole magical beings at our core.
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It's not something you need to build up. It's not something you need to make
yourself into. It's something that you uncover within yourself.
It's there. where you have been here.
So to rest within that, within that presence of the universe,
to rest with a still mind, with a clear mind, free from conditioning, you can do that.
That's how you become a line of magic.
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And to be at one with magic is to be at one with the universe,
simultaneously connected with your inherent divinity and with the cosmos.
But this is not a very popular option in modern society. We are much more interested
in distracting ourselves from that.
Distracting ourselves from ourselves we strike
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ourselves with mindless entertainment interpersonal drama meaningless
jobs addictions video games whatever it
happens to be right but as
the situation is said underneath the pavement to a speech and
underneath that all that noise that we're constantly bombarded you that's a
culture that we're constantly getting confused by whether it's coming out of
the internet or you know billboards or whatever underneath all of that all the
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messages are constantly thrown at us telling us who we need to be and what we
what we should be underneath that is where magic is.
Magic is the innate ability of every human being to connect to the universe.
And that's really, that's really good. There's been a lot of scaffolding of
belief systems and all Kabbalistic stuff.
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All these monsters happen around simple sets and languages to make it sexy,
you know, life secret thing, to create a pursuit classes, a pursuit task,
you don't really need that.
It's our innate ability to connect to the cosmos.
And nobody can sell that to you and nobody can take it from you because it's
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your birthright and it's yours to develop if you choose.
So to be a magical being is to, at least for short periods of time,
learn to drop the boundary between yourself and the greater universe.
To realize that you are never separate from the universe, and that in fact the
cosmos is your larger body.
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But there's a lot of paths to that understanding. You can study it in books, you can go join a cult.
Yeah, you can try and learn it from external sources.
You can read books, you can join cults, you can go to teachers and groups of
trying to glean the secrets.
You can look it up online. You can follow these step-by-step instructions and
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all these recipe books that people have been writing for centuries.
And that is a good way to start. Eventually, it comes from within you,
but you can pick it up from external sources.
And eventually, if you follow the experiments that are laid down in those books, you will get results.
Most people who do that start for selfish reasons. maybe people get into magic
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because they feel powerless or alone or afraid or they feel like they're just
not getting their just due from the universe it's not enough for whatever reason,
so maybe people do a little bit of sorcery here and there to get some money
to get a job to get that person back and run away and maybe it works at least for a little bit,
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but pretty soon if you start on this path you realize that's not the ultimate,
pretty soon you realize that it's not about what you can get when you throw
yourself fully into the magical currents it will do exactly one thing and that
is destroy you utterly rather than making your wildest dreams come true magic
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will show you that you're sleeping.
It will shock you awake.
And in the end, there will be nothing left of a person that you thought you were. At all.
A little pile of dust. Yeah.
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Instead of bringing in trinkets and shiny things from the universe,
magic will completely dissolve the boundary between you and that universe and
show you that the entire universe isn't just a playground, it's you.
And that's when a real fun begins.
So it's not about being a magician, whatever that means. And it's not about
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being special and different and weird, having all the cool stories and the tattoos and all of that.
Although that's fun for a while. It's about completely throwing yourself into
the magic of reality as it is.
Throwing your full being into the world and seeing the apocalypse.
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We are magical beings alive in a magical universe.
And more and more, at least for me, I find that the language of magic is the
only way to explain reality, because it's the only thing that factors that explain to human willpower,
like synchronicity, like coincidence, like meaning, like what does it all mean,
instead of just the dry language of science, which is extremely important to
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summarize, but doesn't have to pop up. the absolute people are seeking.
Science is the greatest tool humanity has for discovering truth in the material world.
But in the realm of spirit, in the realm of meaning and truth and duty,
humanity has been given religion, and religion is just lies, right?
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But just because priests turn out to be child lustrous, does that suddenly mean
that there's no such thing as a baby in spirit? No, of course not.
Just because humanity has had an abusive relationship with spiritualities,
black level, and provisioners, petty dictators, does that mean there's no such
thing as a higher reality? No, of course not.
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So what we need is a tool as precise as science, a system of experimentation
that will allow us to understand the world of spirit just as precisely and without
deception as we now understand physics, for instance.
And understand it on our own terms, prove it for ourselves experimentally,
not take it on faith from somebody else.
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Understand it because we did
the experiments and we got the results and we have seen what we've seen.
It's about doing it for ourselves, instead of relying on somebody else to do
it for us. That's really what it comes down to with magic.
Religion is about taking inherited truth from somebody else.
Science magic is about doing it yourself, bringing your own divinity out.
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So that tool that I'm calling for is magic.
So beneath all the bullshit, the new age path, the cheap satanic shit,
the counterculture carnage shit, is, to my mind at least, the secret spiritual tradition of the West.
I really mean that, a tradition, something that's been passed down for centuries,
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very quietly, very secretly because of Jewish repression.
But it's a path that's valid and complex, or even more so, perhaps,
than Tibetan Buddhism or B'vedabhidapta, for instance, on the East.
So, here's my contention. We're standing here, we're alive, this is,
to my mind, the greatest woman in history.
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And we are as gods and we're
learning how to act like it finally our gadget
tree and our technological wizardry makes us more
than human we can instantly communicate with anybody in the world as if telepathically
we can instantly have anything brought to our door as if by magic from anywhere
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in the world so why is the iconography of magic so is so popular that's a direct
question to all of you, because you guys are running with this.
Why is there occult imagery in every band, suddenly on every street corner,
I mean at least in LA or I would have, it's everywhere.
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Why is that? Is it really just a Rubinati M. K. Wilker, why do you go experiment
to talk with it seriously.
It's possible. I don't know anything about that if that's true.
Or is there something even stranger going on?
It's my belief that what we're on the verge on is the biggest magical renaissance in history.
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And I think the people in this room represent early adopters of that.
Why is everybody suddenly interested in the occult? It's like the abilities
and spirituality and weird shit.
I believe what we're looking at is a completely new type of human being and
that you are the precursors of a way of thinking that's going to become much
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more prevalent in the coming decades.
So, how did we get through? In order to understand magic in the 21st century
and where we're going, we need to understand where we've been.
We need to understand the superstitious beliefs that humanity has been through
in the past so that we can separate the wheat from the chaff,
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as it were, because there's a lot of inherited superstition and dogma and lazy
thinking and the occupation and tonification in the occult that is particularly helpful.
In order to answer that question, though, we need to go back to prehistory,
to humanity's first steps in the world.
We need to understand what magic was and why we lost it.
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When Mantine was born out of Africa, magic was our first way.
Like a seven-year-old child who lives in a world of omnis and superstitions, so were we.
Mankind dwelled in a world of totem and taboo, in which we were not separate from nature.
It was during this time, before agriculture, which humanity dwelled totally
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in the magical world, in the magical mindset.
The Bible refers to this period of history as the Garden of Eden,
and mankind's immersion in nature was glyphed as the pre-false state of Adam and Eve.
In the psycho-historical model of the Golden Dawn, the Victorian magical society
that gave us the modern occult revival, and of Aleister Crowley,
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its most controversial student, this period of human development was called the Gaiaan of Isis.
Isis is the archetypal feminine, right, the great mother gods.
Because it was at this time that not yet having understood how sex works,
we believed that women spontaneously became pregnant and gave birth. Bear with me.
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Therefore, because we have this undeveloped understanding, we saw women as uniquely
divine and worship the goddess as the source of all life and magic,
as women were believed to uniquely have power over life and death.
Humanity was at this point matriarchal, as we see from the Paleolithic sculptures
that have been unearthed across the world from this time that depict women with
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massive breasts and hips, the archetypal goddess figure.
We worship the spirits of nature and fertility because those are the forces that define our world.
The late psychedelic scholar Terence McKenna in the book Food of the Gods suggests
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that at this time mankind was engaged in a consistent use of suicide emotions,
easily harvested in the wild.
Sexuality for Paleolithic man was a never-ending psychedelic orgy.
Sex was tribal and communal when regularly conducted in a psychedelic space.
In this period of history, we were fully immersed in the spirit world,
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with no distinction whatsoever between this world and the next,
between waking reality and the dream time, as the Aborigines call it.
Lives had not yet been drawn to the American world. Mankind was in the Garden of Eden.
This was a period of history that God's faiths spirituality,
the ecological movement, and many other forms of New Age and Shamanic beliefs suggest we return to,
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but I have to bring it to you, it's not coming back, and it wasn't necessarily
that great in the first place.
However, it's from this pre-historical period that we inherit the most basic forms of battle.
Shamanism, both psychedelic and otherwise, dominated this period as mankind
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attempted to make sense of its world through intermediaries,
shamans, that could explain existence.
It's these beliefs that would later survive as underground traditions like tantra
and witchcraft, in which psychedelic sexuality and magic were still a practice,
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albeit in secret, for reasons we'll explore in a bit.
So this is where we were. High as a kaiika had a group sex constantly.
But this entire setup of change, Destinence McKenna suggests,
with a series of droughts, that make food and psyched with mushrooms much less plentiful.
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This was the fall Hermida. And falling from that primordial state,
we were forced to look for ways to preserve and store our goods.
So it was at this time that mankind had seen very important discoveries.
The first was that seeds could be transported, planted, and farmed.
And if the world was in a state of drought, then people could start planting
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crops, and they could save them for drought conditions.
Therefore, this is how agriculture was born, and with it the concept of ownership, right?
Instead of randomly picking sustenance through the wilderness,
crops could not be grown and therefore owned and even afforded.
Men were no longer equal.
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Some had access to farm crops and some didn't. So you can see in an instant, patriarchy was born.
Because along with the realization that planting seeds can grow crops came to
a parallel realization that the process worked the same way with humans.
Babies were now seen clearly as the product of male seed planted in women,
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and if men could own planted crops, then the same mindset was now extended to women.
The balance of power now shifted from the feminine to the masculine.
Agriculture, ownership, and patriarchy were born in a second.
As far as psychedelic mushrooms went, those had to be preserved and saved as
well, because they would be quickly disappearing for the wild.
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The most readily available medium of storage in the time, as some of you may
know, I don't know, would have been.
If you put psilocybin mushrooms in honey, not only do the mushrooms last forever,
but the honey ferments as well, and then the honey becomes psychedelic alcohol,
which is a fun science experiment to try and regulate this again.
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So now you've got psychedelic alcohol and with accidental discovery of alcohol,
accidental as a way to store psychedelics, mankind is now in for a very, very tough time.
So we've got planting crops, burning human beings, and alcohol.
You see where this is going.
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So it was at this time that a wholly new epoch in the evolution of human consciousness
was born, in which the image of the mother gods that we had previously worshipped
was now replaced by the father god.
Since men were now thought to have the sole power to create life and to plant
crops, we now began to worship the male secrets of agriculture and growth.
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And bear in mind, even up until the 1920s, it was still widely thought,
at least among the, maybe not among scientists, but among common people,
it was still widely thought that met plants and babies and women.
So the 20s.
So it was because of the cycle of agriculture that
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he began to worship male gods that died and resurrected
just like the crops just like the male erectile cycle just like the sun going
up and down every night alistair crowley called this period of history the game
of osiris or osiris is the archetypal egyptian hero king that dies and is reborn
just like the cross just like the.
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And in the same way we began to worship the sun, because as the Egyptian Book
of the Dead tells us the sun dies and is resurrected every night,
and ancient people thought that the sun actually died at night,
comes resurrected to completely make the sun the next day. That was the wise bit of belief.
So all these ideas, you can see all these ideas and symbols were linked together
in this obsession all of a sudden with death and resurrection.
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And, of course, the Egyptian Book of the Dead connects all of those,
and then also connects it to the death and resurrection of the soul as a process
of gaining immortal life for them.
So, setting all that aside, this is where Christ comes from, right?
And all of the dying gods that were worshipped throughout the world as symbols
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of the death and resurrection of crops.
Christ dies, he's crucified, he's reborn, just like the crops, the sun, the hell, etc.
So now in a new social order, just as kings drew their economic substance from
agriculture, so now they derive their divine right to rule from the father and
solar gods to embody the masculine mysteries.
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As paleolithic fertility goddesses spread across
the world in a previous era it was during this time
that you started to see phthalic symbols and buildings constructed across
the globe obelisks tower monuments and today's sky streamers became phthalic
symbols that suggested the divine power and male kings across cultures it's
not just western nature eastern culture is the same but shoga was the great
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ludus conqueror in india who built obelisks all throughout india when he came through.
It's cross-cultured. Why is that? Why did New Sunday become obsessed with these symbols?
So consider this. Consider the soul earned of Christ.
Consider the death and resurrection. And if he's the archetypal male savior,
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and if he's the most famous, he's still not the only one.
It was just the pattern for how gods were seen in that period of history.
Also consider how the spiritual systems and religions of the world that were
prefronted in the last 2,000 or 3,000 years all relied on agricultural metaphor,
the columnistic tree of life, the Bodhi tree, the Buddha, the saints of enlightenment,
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and so on and so forth throughout the religious annals of our recent past.
These are all agricultural symbols. Also consider the spread of slavery as the
obsession of property extended to human beings.
Consider the sexual subjugation of women and children
and most of all consider the terrifying spread
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of monarchies with its single all-seeing persecuting
god and its threats of eternal torment and damnation
for sexual threat of religion what is
this of ruling elites imposing their will upon a
populace they were farming just as surely as
they were farming crops and controlling sexuality of
their populace because they knew it was the best way to
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keep them under wraps with you so far okay
so that time
is over the era the era of patriarchy is over
and it will not not be replaced with the matriarchal age
we're not going back to nature we're not going back to the old ways we're not
going back to the wounds Freud might have said instead as others might have
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suggested we're now in the age of the child the synthesis of male and female
the time in which we are not obsessed with nature,
the time in which we are not obsessed with controlling human beings,
but the time in which we attain our divine birthright by going to the stars.
So here's where we really get into the media of the talk. All that is set up, right?
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This is where we leave behind all of that old stuff.
All that old magic crap, right? Forget it.
Forget it. Leave it behind with all the superstitious crap.
It's a matriarchal prehistory. and all of the hopeless enslavement of patriarchal dark agents.
Everything they usually think of is magic, right? Spells, curses,
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hexes, Wicca, first of all, holy craft, archaic, communism, religious ritual,
the church, monastic orders, all of that shit.
That's old Aeon. It's old Aeon magic. And it's all Ren Faire at this point.
It's beautiful in its own way, it's incredible, but it's just not applicable
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to the real world now. It's not going to get you from point A to point B.
And people who so engage in the old systems of magic are essentially historical
re-enactors at this point.
It's embarrassing for a reason, right?
So let's get into the real shit, then. And the real shit is this question. What is the new Aeon?
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According to Aleister Crowley, who, despite the extent to which people like
to baghide in the prop of their own egos, their own multi-superiority,
or show that they're somehow better than this person who's not even alive anymore,
despite all that, I consider him one of the greatest, if not the greatest magicians
in the 20th century, despite his many personal failings.
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According to him, we've now made the transition into this third age,
in which we're dominated not by the image of the mother or the father, but by the child.
You can probably call this Tyrian the Aeon of Horus, as Horus is the Egyptian
child god who manifests in force and fire, who comes to destroy all of that
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stuff in order to create something new.
Horus is the hawk-headed lord of the horizon. Horus is the glyph of humanity
waking up to its own divine nature.
Horus manifests as mankind understanding. Finally, we are not created by man
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or woman, but rather by both.
And that therefore, we're not only each a mixture of both, but that we're our own beings.
Divine syntheses. And that we can make our own destiny instead of staying the property of others.
Horus manifests as mankind realizing that the sun does not die when it falls
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over the horizon, but that the earth is revolving around the sun constantly,
and that similarly the soul does not die with the body, but returns eternally.
Horus manifests as two world wars utterly destroying the old world war, the force of fire.
Horus manifests as the nuclear bomb, splitting the atom that is a sure symbol
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of monarchy as there is any, and shattering that world forever, zero equals two.
Horus manifests as women's liberation,
as gay liberation, as racial liberation, as liberation, period.
Horus manifests as birth control, as women becoming girt with the sword,
as it were, and taking control of their own destinies.
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Horus manifests as the old religions competing to see who can destroy each other
fastest, struggling to maintain the very last vestiges of their power as they
disintegrate into irrelevance.
Horus manifests as the tendency for both genders to blur together,
as the slow-erasing gender distinctions and the increasing prevalence of androgyny,
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bisexuality, pansexuality, and, as Genesis Biar-Piorek puts it, pandrogyny.
Horus manifests as the tendency of the young to completely reject the dogmas
of the world and demand proof on their own terms, this is where Hatcha comes
in, on their own terms of the laws of reality.
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Horus manifests as the mass obsession with the occult, with magic,
with the new age, with psychic powers and that type of thing.
And Horus manifests as an update of the old systems, an update of the old magic.
So instead of fairies and shadow courts, now we have aliens and government conspiracies.
Horus manifests as the dictum, every man and woman is a star.
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And the Hollywood star system was only a prototyping for our new reality,
in which everyone is a star on social media, on Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, shattering forever and into the universe, every each and one of us
the center of our own universe.
Horus manifests as the Trump's lead destruction, Simcom.
And the realization that the gates of heaven are within every being,
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far more easily accessed by sex, drugs, and rock and roll than within a church queue.
In the eye of Horus, the old image of the divine as either a comforting earth
mother or a scolding sky father is completely overturned because we have been kicked out of the nest.
Now what you might call god of a divine or spirit
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what people would have said in earlier eras takes three
forms right takes the form of the conscious universe
understood to be alive with awareness an infant takes the form of the inmost
light the spark of divinity within each and every being the star of light and
is their birthright and finally god god takes the form of us these bratty, selfish,
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fucked-up children with more electronic powers than even the most powerful of
the old gods were attributed to having by supernatural means.
We are the face of God. We, us, self-aware humanity, are what the early Christian
writers called the Beast 666, the Antichrist.
Because we no longer place divine agency in external beings that have claimed it for ourselves.
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For the early Christians, this was the apocalypse, apocalypsis.
But it isn't the end of the world.
It's only the end of the old aeon. And the revelation, we are as gods. So.
Astrologically, if anyone has said to that, the Giana forests is attributed
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to the science of Aquarius and Leo,
Aquarius symbolizing the constant flow of information in our electronic age,
Leo symbolizing the lion-like nature of mankind's self-realization,
and also the attendant egoism of self-obsession, which is perfect for social media.
The Hindu sage Sri Yutashwar referred to this period of history as the Kvapura Yuga,
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in which mankind has begun to exit the dark of the Kali Yuga and begun to demand
realization on its own terms with the attendant magical hours of technology resulting.
So this Aeon of Horus will last in theory for 2,000 years.
It started in 1904, and it's projected to last 2,000 years past that.
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So, ask yourself, why do we live in an age of vapid fabbling on the internet, on social media?
Why do we live in an age of madness and militarization with all the old religions
being destroyed by force and fire?
Why is everybody in America a self-obsessed brat who worships Star Wars?
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While our foreign holdings are policed by clock-shaped drones piloted like their
operators are playing a video game why are we constantly under the all-seeing
eye of the NSA the eye of Horus the eye of the pyramid the answer is that we're all children,
we're babies just slowly growing out of the gauge of religious domination this
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is the game of Horus this is the game of slowly awakening children.
So I challenge you to take a look around yourself over the next few days and weeks.
Look at everybody, everyone around you, even the people in charge,
even the supposedly criminal and really fucked up people, especially the people
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who are supposedly adults, the supposedly mature people.
Take a look, and if you really look, what you will see is children playing games.
Watch the obsession with juvenile diversions, the adolescent sarcasm,
the social media nonsense, even the people with war.
Take a look, and you'll see the fixed horse.
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Every one of them a sovereign if juvenile divine being
playing their own weird games for their own
abuse this is by
the way the shirt's footing for the practice of compassion to see
everyone around you as playing divine games no different than yourself even
if you don't agree with them so this is where we are mankind is a race of slowly
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awakening divine children with all the magical power of gods and all the occult stuff,
all the symbols in the books and the spells and all of that that's just the
packing phone what we're really talking about is a new type of consciousness,
where the individual seizes their divine their inner subunity and seizes control
of their own life for themselves and takes charge of their own initiation, their own,
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self-realization instead of giving that power away to somebody else that's what
we're talking about here.
So, if we're so great, why do we still feel powerless?
Why do we feel like we have to go along to give along?
And the answer is we don't. We've already got all the magic we need.
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More divine power than humans have had at any other time in history, ever.
We're divine children at play with the universe. So the question is,
for me, what are we going to grow up into?
Because right now we're behaving like terrible fucked up rats.
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We're stomping on the planet. We're breaking our toys. Our readers are morons.
We're trying to get every last trick in the book to control us and keep tabs
on us. Well, they can't even keep the government right.
Worse than that, we as a culture, like children do, are completely ignoring
our impact on the people around us.
If you don't spend time with a two-year-old, you know exactly what the clock can tell.
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We're destroying our playground, essentially.
We're destroying the environment. We're running out of oil because we insist
on having the latest toys, the latest technology.
We're driving Hummers. We're running on, running at Always On Neon Civilization
because it's fun. That's our game.
We've got things like Fukushima exploding and are seemingly unable to do anything about it.
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A report came out. I recently wrote an article for Vice about a report came
out that the Gareward breathing is now more carcinogenic than the second year of smoke.
That's how badly we're fucking up. Think about that for a second.
So despite all this incredible stuff that's happening, despite the fact that
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all the old shit is shaking off, despite the fact that we're becoming these
beings, becoming ourselves, really, the world is still in very bad straits.
We're not talking about a messianic thing. We're not talking about some horus
or some being coming to save everyone. What we're talking about is people waking
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up to the realization that it's our responsibility to do something about it.
Because if there's no God, well, if there's no God like that,
then who's going to do something about it? Us, right?
But unfortunately, we're too busy amusing ourselves with Facebook and bringing
that at Star Wars or whatever other game we're playing.
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So we don't notice it. We just pretend everything's fine.
But everything's not fine, okay? You've got two very serious problems as a civilization.
We're slowly becoming alive. We're not.
First is we're artificially inflating the economy and greasing the cars for
just a little bit while, just a little while longer with fracking.
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First, they were getting shale oil out. Now they're drilling down into the trying
to get everything out of there, completely flacking out the ground water,
just to keep the party going. It's a great day, and it's a good game.
And the second is the old Aeon didn't end.
The age of imperialism and slavery is still with us.
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The Aeon of Horus, at least if you follow its model, has only been going for,
107 years, 2000, so we still got a long way to go.
The Aeon of Osiris is still in its death row. every war you see in the Middle
East just reiterates that.
So the whole concept of owning other people's property that came with the age
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of imperialism, that didn't happen, but they essentially became corporatized and more refined.
Now it takes the form of corporate abuse of third world resources,
of sweatshops, of military occupation, and drone policing.
In the homeland, just under our noses, it takes the form of private prisons
and incarceration of minorities for drug offenses, to be converted to illegal
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slave labor for corporations.
It takes the form of corporate rape with the environment and the dumping of
toxic chemicals for minority communities.
So if you want to be a magician, and you want to exercise demons,
don't look at all the demons in the gremolas, look at the ones that are falling
off the world for corporations.
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For the nominally free classes, the imperial disease takes the form of white-collar
and debt-truth servitude, enforced by criminal student loans,
political disenfranchisement, and shrinking opportunities for the youngs.
It takes the form of an overpaid, militarized entertainment industry and distraction-focused
internet, which stretches into every aspect of our lives, continually seeking
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to keep us small, powerless, afraid, scattered, and numb.
But all it is, is our old nightmare, the whole day not trying to hold on.
So, even though all this is happening, for the individual constituents of the
system, life is still better than it ever has been, even if our freedom has been traded away.
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And that quality of life depends on simply going along with the plan.
So many individuals focus on social issues here and there, on a certain frictions
between Republicans and Democrats, but to question the overall plan,
to question this death grip that the old religions have on the world.
That's taboo, right? To discuss there are also advanced modern worlds as an
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avattoir, a meat machine. This is forbidden.
To question the two great sins of our culture, that our quality of life depends
on the destruction of the environment and also the rape of the global poor, this is forbidden.
Even the indentured cervix of the American middle class They're shaggy as they
are, stand on the shoulders of the sleeves, blow them.
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The iPhones, time hats, computers, and consumer goods come from sweatshops that
drive their workers to suicide.
The food comes from the corporate plantations, abused migrant workers, and tortured animals.
The pharmaceuticals and cosmetics come from toxic, profit-driven black science and animal testing.
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And sweeping all this under the carpet, the abuse of the environment and the
abuse of the poor, those are the two great lies.
And those run through our entire culture and corrupt everything they touch.
And as far as I can see, there's no easy escape. These are a manifestation of
nature in its purest form.
And in a way, these as well are a manifestation of porous, the dark side.
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Rock who are queets, who got war and destruction.
Horus comes in two forms does anyone know this,
horus has just two forms which is the god of silence,
with by this you you're synchronicity of this this is the sign of silence this is horus horus horus,
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you can look at that as all the good tendencies that they have of horus like
all the hippie awakenings in the 60s all the psychedelic progs the free love the awakening to,
all the stuff we've been talking about, the Hymn of Self-Spirituality,
that's Horus in the positive aspect.
Ra-Hor-Quit is Horus, the god of war and destruction, the one coming to destroy
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all the old stuff, so that something new can be built.
That's the atomic bombs, the AIDS, the you name it, right?
So we're in complex territory here. But Horus is just nature.
Vicious, brutal, red in tooth and claw, non-egalitarian, non-democratic,
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and non-compassionate in its own way, concerned only with who eats who,
like a hawk who snatches a lizard in the desert and tears into it on a rock.
This is reality, and this is nature unveiled. And the great advance of Western
civilization is not that we've overcome this space nature, but that we've learned
to keep our nails clean and our smiles bright and pretend it's not happening,
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to pay other people to keep it out of our consciences.
To pay others to slaughter and prepare our food. To pay others to fight our
wars for energy and then take the blame when we get angry at them for serving our interests.
Keeping our consciences pure by pretending it was Polish or Cheney or Obama
who did the dirty deeds when they were just fulfilling our needs for energy.
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To pay others to enact the sexualities where we might be afraid of exploring for ourselves.
To pay others to entertain us and keep us numb from suitable concoctions to
stay off the demon of self-awareness.
It's not them we're getting back to this we're talking about internalizing responsibility,
this is the process of spiritual maturity,
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there's no God dealt there, there's no external forces telling you what to do.
It's mostly fiction corporations are the same,
it's us and the only way out of the situation is to acknowledge that,
our own responsibility not to revel in it, not to become overwhelmed by it,
but to see it, to see the lies.
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Don't get guilty. Don't get fucked up about it, but see and acknowledge what's happening.
Sit with it. Understand that no one person can change it. The age of Messiahs
is done. It's over. No one's coming. Nope.
No one person can change it, but together all of us might.
And those minor acts of resistance and choosing higher paths when confronted
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with your ability to make those choices can cumulatively change everything.
Mankind raised itself out of the darkness of prehistory to be covered.
It's overcome diseases, overcome some of the more outwardly drool forms of oppression.
The Middle Ages weren't that long ago, and consider how far we've come since.
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The Western ideas of egalitarianism and human rights are only a few centuries old.
Think about that. Think how far we've come since the French Revolution.
How much further can we go, though? new advances in science are occurring at
a rate too fast to keep up with can we can we not maintain that catastrophic
rate of advancing in the field of human dignity and human freedom,
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i say we not only can but we must or as many have told us before our capacity
for technological wizardry will be our demise if not coupled with the wisdom
and focus on basic humanity that will allow us to use our new toys properly.
I do not wish to see a world in which the human is discarded from the transhuman.
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So it's time to grow up. And at least for me,
it's my contention, maybe it's all I do, it's my contention that the raw disciplines
of magic and spirituality are that tool to do that for us, that we can work
with to initiate ourselves, to evolve ourselves.
Magic in a way is how can i practice in addition for 15 years and well i'm trying
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to go to two next week so 16 years um magic is an incredible process it takes
you it's a breakneck journey,
at the end of it it's almost a way of psyching yourself up into a place where
you feel like you take on the whole world at that point all the the trappings are out of the.
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It's a way of convincing yourself, hypnotizing yourself that you are a magical
being as you are, remembering that state.
So it's about recognizing who you are, where you are.
Magic is discipline, plain and simple. It's about disciplining your body,
mind, and spirit to fully become yourself.
And it's a hard, hard ride. There's no easy answers, but the answers are euphoric or your own.
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And in a world in which nothing is certain in
which nobody has it figured out in which all the
old models are crumbling i suspect that
there can be no greater investment of time and effort than in your own spiritual
growth and evolution self-directed because nobody can take that from you no
matter what it's not wasted time ever so it's the job of a stage magician to produce illusions,
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but it's the job of the magus to remove illusions.
So that said, why should you practice magic? Because I would say we need more
people with less illusions.
We need more grown-ups in the world, or at least more growing up people.
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We're becoming an enlightened species, so when are we going to start acting
like it. That's my question.
What are we going to say? Fuck Mighty Cyrus, fuck Democrats and Republicans
at Facebook too, and let's put it all down with the gang of the stars.
So that's my message for today. That's my sermon.
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Thank you. And may all beings that are all detained at peace, freedom, the path is.
Magic.me is waiting for you, M-A-G-I-C-K.me, where you can learn all of the
skills of the Western and Eastern esoteric tradition so that you can get to your goal,
which is discovering your true will and true self in this life so that you can
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become the person that you were always meant to be,
that maybe distractions and other people's expectations have covered up, don't worry.
The gold is still there for you to unveil and bring to the world because that's what we need.
Most of all, you at your best.
All right. Magic.me, M-A-G-I-C-K.me. Lots of love. See you next time.
Yes, hello, it's Jason Louv and welcome back to the Ultraculture Podcast.
This episode is fresh from the archives. This is a talk on the revival of magic
that I gave at the now defunct Catland Books in Brooklyn, New York in 2014.
The quality is not perfect because it was recorded on a handheld camcorder.
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But while I was working on Adept Initiative, I found this entire speech that
somehow had evaded my grasp on a hard drive, and it's a very, very good speech.
So in this talk, I discuss how third millennium magic radically differs from
the magic of the second millennium and talk about all the hits,
Terrence McKenna, shamanism, the book of the law, and lots, lots more.
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All right, you're really going to dig this you can watch the video version at
the magic me youtube just search magic me on youtube and make sure to like and
subscribe when you go there all right.
Music.
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So uh hi i'm jason lou i just got off the plane from l.a it's like three in the morning,
And let's see. So I run a blog called Ultra Culture at ultraculture.org,
which is about... Is this on, by the way? Yeah, I can see a lot of it.
And I published several books on the occult.
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The first one was Generation Hex, which is an anthology of writing on occult
that came out disinformation in 2005,
which was a fact-holder lore and a call to youth revolution and a call,
renaissance, which all of a sudden is happening, which I'm really excited about,
especially here at Safety Ground Zero.
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I also added the Sighted Bible with Genesis, right?
Yours, can you say that? I'm telling you all the magical and the cold writings
of several psychic years in the eighties, which was a group that popularized,
I'm sure you have one outside,
but it was a group that popularized, magnetic, buying, pure saying, acid house,
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and really played the foundation for the cold revival we're experiencing right now.
So, my talk tonight is just about math, just basic, and I'm assuming everyone here is okay with that.
We're like in like a six-fix year, everyone is like on the level about that,
I don't know if you trust us that at all.
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So to get on to that topic, I wasted my 20s, right?
Running all over the world, learning the secrets of the occult from various cultures.
And let's see, I ran around, I learned chaos magic, ceremonial magic,
spent a lot of time running with Genesis Purge, became a Sufi,
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became a Freemason, went to India, became an initiator as a Nepali, a digital shaman.
And later Gabby got a day job.
So that's where I'm coming from. And I was asked to speak tonight,
so I'd like to share some of that fucked up world here with you.
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So let's get into it. Let's talk about magic.
And let's try to leave as much of the nonsense as we can on how to be a quake here.
Because there's a lot of it in the subject, and the topic is so vast,
we've covered so much ground, and it goes back to the beginnings of human history,
that there's a lot to filter through.
So I just want to give you the basics, which for a lot of you may be out level
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with that already, but please store questions for the end and really good questions.
If you have technical questions with magic, I'm happy to answer those as well.
So what is magic? Magic is the first belief system of humanity,
the first, before science, religion, anything, and it will be the last.
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Magic is mankind's natural way of the world.
Underneath the social conditioning, the layers of religion and economic and
sexual repression and bullshit ideology and all of that, the character armory,
as well as I would call it,
we are innately whole magical beings at our core.
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It's not something you need to build up. It's not something you need to make
yourself into. It's something that you uncover within yourself.
It's there. where you have been here.
So to rest within that, within that presence of the universe,
to rest with a still mind, with a clear mind, free from conditioning, you can do that.
That's how you become a line of magic.
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And to be at one with magic is to be at one with the universe,
simultaneously connected with your inherent divinity and with the cosmos.
But this is not a very popular option in modern society. We are much more interested
in distracting ourselves from that.
Distracting ourselves from ourselves we strike
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ourselves with mindless entertainment interpersonal drama meaningless
jobs addictions video games whatever it
happens to be right but as
the situation is said underneath the pavement to a speech and
underneath that all that noise that we're constantly bombarded you that's a
culture that we're constantly getting confused by whether it's coming out of
the internet or you know billboards or whatever underneath all of that all the
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messages are constantly thrown at us telling us who we need to be and what we
what we should be underneath that is where magic is.
Magic is the innate ability of every human being to connect to the universe.
And that's really, that's really good. There's been a lot of scaffolding of
belief systems and all Kabbalistic stuff.
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All these monsters happen around simple sets and languages to make it sexy,
you know, life secret thing, to create a pursuit classes, a pursuit task,
you don't really need that.
It's our innate ability to connect to the cosmos.
And nobody can sell that to you and nobody can take it from you because it's
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your birthright and it's yours to develop if you choose.
So to be a magical being is to, at least for short periods of time,
learn to drop the boundary between yourself and the greater universe.
To realize that you are never separate from the universe, and that in fact the
cosmos is your larger body.
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But there's a lot of paths to that understanding. You can study it in books, you can go join a cult.
Yeah, you can try and learn it from external sources.
You can read books, you can join cults, you can go to teachers and groups of
trying to glean the secrets.
You can look it up online. You can follow these step-by-step instructions and
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all these recipe books that people have been writing for centuries.
And that is a good way to start. Eventually, it comes from within you,
but you can pick it up from external sources.
And eventually, if you follow the experiments that are laid down in those books, you will get results.
Most people who do that start for selfish reasons. maybe people get into magic
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because they feel powerless or alone or afraid or they feel like they're just
not getting their just due from the universe it's not enough for whatever reason,
so maybe people do a little bit of sorcery here and there to get some money
to get a job to get that person back and run away and maybe it works at least for a little bit,
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but pretty soon if you start on this path you realize that's not the ultimate,
pretty soon you realize that it's not about what you can get when you throw
yourself fully into the magical currents it will do exactly one thing and that
is destroy you utterly rather than making your wildest dreams come true magic
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will show you that you're sleeping.
It will shock you awake.
And in the end, there will be nothing left of a person that you thought you were. At all.
A little pile of dust. Yeah.
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Instead of bringing in trinkets and shiny things from the universe,
magic will completely dissolve the boundary between you and that universe and
show you that the entire universe isn't just a playground, it's you.
And that's when a real fun begins.
So it's not about being a magician, whatever that means. And it's not about
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being special and different and weird, having all the cool stories and the tattoos and all of that.
Although that's fun for a while. It's about completely throwing yourself into
the magic of reality as it is.
Throwing your full being into the world and seeing the apocalypse.
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We are magical beings alive in a magical universe.
And more and more, at least for me, I find that the language of magic is the
only way to explain reality, because it's the only thing that factors that explain to human willpower,
like synchronicity, like coincidence, like meaning, like what does it all mean,
instead of just the dry language of science, which is extremely important to
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summarize, but doesn't have to pop up. the absolute people are seeking.
Science is the greatest tool humanity has for discovering truth in the material world.
But in the realm of spirit, in the realm of meaning and truth and duty,
humanity has been given religion, and religion is just lies, right?
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But just because priests turn out to be child lustrous, does that suddenly mean
that there's no such thing as a baby in spirit? No, of course not.
Just because humanity has had an abusive relationship with spiritualities,
black level, and provisioners, petty dictators, does that mean there's no such
thing as a higher reality? No, of course not.
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So what we need is a tool as precise as science, a system of experimentation
that will allow us to understand the world of spirit just as precisely and without
deception as we now understand physics, for instance.
And understand it on our own terms, prove it for ourselves experimentally,
not take it on faith from somebody else.
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Understand it because we did
the experiments and we got the results and we have seen what we've seen.
It's about doing it for ourselves, instead of relying on somebody else to do
it for us. That's really what it comes down to with magic.
Religion is about taking inherited truth from somebody else.
Science magic is about doing it yourself, bringing your own divinity out.
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So that tool that I'm calling for is magic.
So beneath all the bullshit, the new age path, the cheap satanic shit,
the counterculture carnage shit, is, to my mind at least, the secret spiritual tradition of the West.
I really mean that, a tradition, something that's been passed down for centuries,
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very quietly, very secretly because of Jewish repression.
But it's a path that's valid and complex, or even more so, perhaps,
than Tibetan Buddhism or B'vedabhidapta, for instance, on the East.
So, here's my contention. We're standing here, we're alive, this is,
to my mind, the greatest woman in history.
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And we are as gods and we're
learning how to act like it finally our gadget
tree and our technological wizardry makes us more
than human we can instantly communicate with anybody in the world as if telepathically
we can instantly have anything brought to our door as if by magic from anywhere
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in the world so why is the iconography of magic so is so popular that's a direct
question to all of you, because you guys are running with this.
Why is there occult imagery in every band, suddenly on every street corner,
I mean at least in LA or I would have, it's everywhere.
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Why is that? Is it really just a Rubinati M. K. Wilker, why do you go experiment
to talk with it seriously.
It's possible. I don't know anything about that if that's true.
Or is there something even stranger going on?
It's my belief that what we're on the verge on is the biggest magical renaissance in history.
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And I think the people in this room represent early adopters of that.
Why is everybody suddenly interested in the occult? It's like the abilities
and spirituality and weird shit.
I believe what we're looking at is a completely new type of human being and
that you are the precursors of a way of thinking that's going to become much
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more prevalent in the coming decades.
So, how did we get through? In order to understand magic in the 21st century
and where we're going, we need to understand where we've been.
We need to understand the superstitious beliefs that humanity has been through
in the past so that we can separate the wheat from the chaff,
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as it were, because there's a lot of inherited superstition and dogma and lazy
thinking and the occupation and tonification in the occult that is particularly helpful.
In order to answer that question, though, we need to go back to prehistory,
to humanity's first steps in the world.
We need to understand what magic was and why we lost it.
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When Mantine was born out of Africa, magic was our first way.
Like a seven-year-old child who lives in a world of omnis and superstitions, so were we.
Mankind dwelled in a world of totem and taboo, in which we were not separate from nature.
It was during this time, before agriculture, which humanity dwelled totally
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in the magical world, in the magical mindset.
The Bible refers to this period of history as the Garden of Eden,
and mankind's immersion in nature was glyphed as the pre-false state of Adam and Eve.
In the psycho-historical model of the Golden Dawn, the Victorian magical society
that gave us the modern occult revival, and of Aleister Crowley,
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its most controversial student, this period of human development was called the Gaiaan of Isis.
Isis is the archetypal feminine, right, the great mother gods.
Because it was at this time that not yet having understood how sex works,
we believed that women spontaneously became pregnant and gave birth. Bear with me.
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Therefore, because we have this undeveloped understanding, we saw women as uniquely
divine and worship the goddess as the source of all life and magic,
as women were believed to uniquely have power over life and death.
Humanity was at this point matriarchal, as we see from the Paleolithic sculptures
that have been unearthed across the world from this time that depict women with
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massive breasts and hips, the archetypal goddess figure.
We worship the spirits of nature and fertility because those are the forces that define our world.
The late psychedelic scholar Terence McKenna in the book Food of the Gods suggests
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that at this time mankind was engaged in a consistent use of suicide emotions,
easily harvested in the wild.
Sexuality for Paleolithic man was a never-ending psychedelic orgy.
Sex was tribal and communal when regularly conducted in a psychedelic space.
In this period of history, we were fully immersed in the spirit world,
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with no distinction whatsoever between this world and the next,
between waking reality and the dream time, as the Aborigines call it.
Lives had not yet been drawn to the American world. Mankind was in the Garden of Eden.
This was a period of history that God's faiths spirituality,
the ecological movement, and many other forms of New Age and Shamanic beliefs suggest we return to,
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but I have to bring it to you, it's not coming back, and it wasn't necessarily
that great in the first place.
However, it's from this pre-historical period that we inherit the most basic forms of battle.
Shamanism, both psychedelic and otherwise, dominated this period as mankind
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attempted to make sense of its world through intermediaries,
shamans, that could explain existence.
It's these beliefs that would later survive as underground traditions like tantra
and witchcraft, in which psychedelic sexuality and magic were still a practice,
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albeit in secret, for reasons we'll explore in a bit.
So this is where we were. High as a kaiika had a group sex constantly.
But this entire setup of change, Destinence McKenna suggests,
with a series of droughts, that make food and psyched with mushrooms much less plentiful.
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This was the fall Hermida. And falling from that primordial state,
we were forced to look for ways to preserve and store our goods.
So it was at this time that mankind had seen very important discoveries.
The first was that seeds could be transported, planted, and farmed.
And if the world was in a state of drought, then people could start planting
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crops, and they could save them for drought conditions.
Therefore, this is how agriculture was born, and with it the concept of ownership, right?
Instead of randomly picking sustenance through the wilderness,
crops could not be grown and therefore owned and even afforded.
Men were no longer equal.
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Some had access to farm crops and some didn't. So you can see in an instant, patriarchy was born.
Because along with the realization that planting seeds can grow crops came to
a parallel realization that the process worked the same way with humans.
Babies were now seen clearly as the product of male seed planted in women,
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and if men could own planted crops, then the same mindset was now extended to women.
The balance of power now shifted from the feminine to the masculine.
Agriculture, ownership, and patriarchy were born in a second.
As far as psychedelic mushrooms went, those had to be preserved and saved as
well, because they would be quickly disappearing for the wild.
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The most readily available medium of storage in the time, as some of you may
know, I don't know, would have been.
If you put psilocybin mushrooms in honey, not only do the mushrooms last forever,
but the honey ferments as well, and then the honey becomes psychedelic alcohol,
which is a fun science experiment to try and regulate this again.
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So now you've got psychedelic alcohol and with accidental discovery of alcohol,
accidental as a way to store psychedelics, mankind is now in for a very, very tough time.
So we've got planting crops, burning human beings, and alcohol.
You see where this is going.
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So it was at this time that a wholly new epoch in the evolution of human consciousness
was born, in which the image of the mother gods that we had previously worshipped
was now replaced by the father god.
Since men were now thought to have the sole power to create life and to plant
crops, we now began to worship the male secrets of agriculture and growth.
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And bear in mind, even up until the 1920s, it was still widely thought,
at least among the, maybe not among scientists, but among common people,
it was still widely thought that met plants and babies and women.
So the 20s.
So it was because of the cycle of agriculture that
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he began to worship male gods that died and resurrected
just like the crops just like the male erectile cycle just like the sun going
up and down every night alistair crowley called this period of history the game
of osiris or osiris is the archetypal egyptian hero king that dies and is reborn
just like the cross just like the.
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And in the same way we began to worship the sun, because as the Egyptian Book
of the Dead tells us the sun dies and is resurrected every night,
and ancient people thought that the sun actually died at night,
comes resurrected to completely make the sun the next day. That was the wise bit of belief.
So all these ideas, you can see all these ideas and symbols were linked together
in this obsession all of a sudden with death and resurrection.
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And, of course, the Egyptian Book of the Dead connects all of those,
and then also connects it to the death and resurrection of the soul as a process
of gaining immortal life for them.
So, setting all that aside, this is where Christ comes from, right?
And all of the dying gods that were worshipped throughout the world as symbols
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of the death and resurrection of crops.
Christ dies, he's crucified, he's reborn, just like the crops, the sun, the hell, etc.
So now in a new social order, just as kings drew their economic substance from
agriculture, so now they derive their divine right to rule from the father and
solar gods to embody the masculine mysteries.
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As paleolithic fertility goddesses spread across
the world in a previous era it was during this time
that you started to see phthalic symbols and buildings constructed across
the globe obelisks tower monuments and today's sky streamers became phthalic
symbols that suggested the divine power and male kings across cultures it's
not just western nature eastern culture is the same but shoga was the great
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ludus conqueror in india who built obelisks all throughout india when he came through.
It's cross-cultured. Why is that? Why did New Sunday become obsessed with these symbols?
So consider this. Consider the soul earned of Christ.
Consider the death and resurrection. And if he's the archetypal male savior,
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and if he's the most famous, he's still not the only one.
It was just the pattern for how gods were seen in that period of history.
Also consider how the spiritual systems and religions of the world that were
prefronted in the last 2,000 or 3,000 years all relied on agricultural metaphor,
the columnistic tree of life, the Bodhi tree, the Buddha, the saints of enlightenment,
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and so on and so forth throughout the religious annals of our recent past.
These are all agricultural symbols. Also consider the spread of slavery as the
obsession of property extended to human beings.
Consider the sexual subjugation of women and children
and most of all consider the terrifying spread
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of monarchies with its single all-seeing persecuting
god and its threats of eternal torment and damnation
for sexual threat of religion what is
this of ruling elites imposing their will upon a
populace they were farming just as surely as
they were farming crops and controlling sexuality of
their populace because they knew it was the best way to
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keep them under wraps with you so far okay
so that time
is over the era the era of patriarchy is over
and it will not not be replaced with the matriarchal age
we're not going back to nature we're not going back to the old ways we're not
going back to the wounds Freud might have said instead as others might have
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suggested we're now in the age of the child the synthesis of male and female
the time in which we are not obsessed with nature,
the time in which we are not obsessed with controlling human beings,
but the time in which we attain our divine birthright by going to the stars.
So here's where we really get into the media of the talk. All that is set up, right?
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This is where we leave behind all of that old stuff.
All that old magic crap, right? Forget it.
Forget it. Leave it behind with all the superstitious crap.
It's a matriarchal prehistory. and all of the hopeless enslavement of patriarchal dark agents.
Everything they usually think of is magic, right? Spells, curses,
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hexes, Wicca, first of all, holy craft, archaic, communism, religious ritual,
the church, monastic orders, all of that shit.
That's old Aeon. It's old Aeon magic. And it's all Ren Faire at this point.
It's beautiful in its own way, it's incredible, but it's just not applicable
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to the real world now. It's not going to get you from point A to point B.
And people who so engage in the old systems of magic are essentially historical
re-enactors at this point.
It's embarrassing for a reason, right?
So let's get into the real shit, then. And the real shit is this question. What is the new Aeon?
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According to Aleister Crowley, who, despite the extent to which people like
to baghide in the prop of their own egos, their own multi-superiority,
or show that they're somehow better than this person who's not even alive anymore,
despite all that, I consider him one of the greatest, if not the greatest magicians
in the 20th century, despite his many personal failings.
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According to him, we've now made the transition into this third age,
in which we're dominated not by the image of the mother or the father, but by the child.
You can probably call this Tyrian the Aeon of Horus, as Horus is the Egyptian
child god who manifests in force and fire, who comes to destroy all of that
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stuff in order to create something new.
Horus is the hawk-headed lord of the horizon. Horus is the glyph of humanity
waking up to its own divine nature.
Horus manifests as mankind understanding. Finally, we are not created by man
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or woman, but rather by both.
And that therefore, we're not only each a mixture of both, but that we're our own beings.
Divine syntheses. And that we can make our own destiny instead of staying the property of others.
Horus manifests as mankind realizing that the sun does not die when it falls
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over the horizon, but that the earth is revolving around the sun constantly,
and that similarly the soul does not die with the body, but returns eternally.
Horus manifests as two world wars utterly destroying the old world war, the force of fire.
Horus manifests as the nuclear bomb, splitting the atom that is a sure symbol
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of monarchy as there is any, and shattering that world forever, zero equals two.
Horus manifests as women's liberation,
as gay liberation, as racial liberation, as liberation, period.
Horus manifests as birth control, as women becoming girt with the sword,
as it were, and taking control of their own destinies.
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Horus manifests as the old religions competing to see who can destroy each other
fastest, struggling to maintain the very last vestiges of their power as they
disintegrate into irrelevance.
Horus manifests as the tendency for both genders to blur together,
as the slow-erasing gender distinctions and the increasing prevalence of androgyny,
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bisexuality, pansexuality, and, as Genesis Biar-Piorek puts it, pandrogyny.
Horus manifests as the tendency of the young to completely reject the dogmas
of the world and demand proof on their own terms, this is where Hatcha comes
in, on their own terms of the laws of reality.
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Horus manifests as the mass obsession with the occult, with magic,
with the new age, with psychic powers and that type of thing.
And Horus manifests as an update of the old systems, an update of the old magic.
So instead of fairies and shadow courts, now we have aliens and government conspiracies.
Horus manifests as the dictum, every man and woman is a star.
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And the Hollywood star system was only a prototyping for our new reality,
in which everyone is a star on social media, on Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, shattering forever and into the universe, every each and one of us
the center of our own universe.
Horus manifests as the Trump's lead destruction, Simcom.
And the realization that the gates of heaven are within every being,
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far more easily accessed by sex, drugs, and rock and roll than within a church queue.
In the eye of Horus, the old image of the divine as either a comforting earth
mother or a scolding sky father is completely overturned because we have been kicked out of the nest.
Now what you might call god of a divine or spirit
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what people would have said in earlier eras takes three
forms right takes the form of the conscious universe
understood to be alive with awareness an infant takes the form of the inmost
light the spark of divinity within each and every being the star of light and
is their birthright and finally god god takes the form of us these bratty, selfish,
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fucked-up children with more electronic powers than even the most powerful of
the old gods were attributed to having by supernatural means.
We are the face of God. We, us, self-aware humanity, are what the early Christian
writers called the Beast 666, the Antichrist.
Because we no longer place divine agency in external beings that have claimed it for ourselves.
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For the early Christians, this was the apocalypse, apocalypsis.
But it isn't the end of the world.
It's only the end of the old aeon. And the revelation, we are as gods. So.
Astrologically, if anyone has said to that, the Giana forests is attributed
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to the science of Aquarius and Leo,
Aquarius symbolizing the constant flow of information in our electronic age,
Leo symbolizing the lion-like nature of mankind's self-realization,
and also the attendant egoism of self-obsession, which is perfect for social media.
The Hindu sage Sri Yutashwar referred to this period of history as the Kvapura Yuga,
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in which mankind has begun to exit the dark of the Kali Yuga and begun to demand
realization on its own terms with the attendant magical hours of technology resulting.
So this Aeon of Horus will last in theory for 2,000 years.
It started in 1904, and it's projected to last 2,000 years past that.
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So, ask yourself, why do we live in an age of vapid fabbling on the internet, on social media?
Why do we live in an age of madness and militarization with all the old religions
being destroyed by force and fire?
Why is everybody in America a self-obsessed brat who worships Star Wars?
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While our foreign holdings are policed by clock-shaped drones piloted like their
operators are playing a video game why are we constantly under the all-seeing
eye of the NSA the eye of Horus the eye of the pyramid the answer is that we're all children,
we're babies just slowly growing out of the gauge of religious domination this
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is the game of Horus this is the game of slowly awakening children.
So I challenge you to take a look around yourself over the next few days and weeks.
Look at everybody, everyone around you, even the people in charge,
even the supposedly criminal and really fucked up people, especially the people
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who are supposedly adults, the supposedly mature people.
Take a look, and if you really look, what you will see is children playing games.
Watch the obsession with juvenile diversions, the adolescent sarcasm,
the social media nonsense, even the people with war.
Take a look, and you'll see the fixed horse.
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Every one of them a sovereign if juvenile divine being
playing their own weird games for their own
abuse this is by
the way the shirt's footing for the practice of compassion to see
everyone around you as playing divine games no different than yourself even
if you don't agree with them so this is where we are mankind is a race of slowly
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awakening divine children with all the magical power of gods and all the occult stuff,
all the symbols in the books and the spells and all of that that's just the
packing phone what we're really talking about is a new type of consciousness,
where the individual seizes their divine their inner subunity and seizes control
of their own life for themselves and takes charge of their own initiation, their own,
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self-realization instead of giving that power away to somebody else that's what
we're talking about here.
So, if we're so great, why do we still feel powerless?
Why do we feel like we have to go along to give along?
And the answer is we don't. We've already got all the magic we need.
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More divine power than humans have had at any other time in history, ever.
We're divine children at play with the universe. So the question is,
for me, what are we going to grow up into?
Because right now we're behaving like terrible fucked up rats.
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We're stomping on the planet. We're breaking our toys. Our readers are morons.
We're trying to get every last trick in the book to control us and keep tabs
on us. Well, they can't even keep the government right.
Worse than that, we as a culture, like children do, are completely ignoring
our impact on the people around us.
If you don't spend time with a two-year-old, you know exactly what the clock can tell.
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We're destroying our playground, essentially.
We're destroying the environment. We're running out of oil because we insist
on having the latest toys, the latest technology.
We're driving Hummers. We're running on, running at Always On Neon Civilization
because it's fun. That's our game.
We've got things like Fukushima exploding and are seemingly unable to do anything about it.
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A report came out. I recently wrote an article for Vice about a report came
out that the Gareward breathing is now more carcinogenic than the second year of smoke.
That's how badly we're fucking up. Think about that for a second.
So despite all this incredible stuff that's happening, despite the fact that
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all the old shit is shaking off, despite the fact that we're becoming these
beings, becoming ourselves, really, the world is still in very bad straits.
We're not talking about a messianic thing. We're not talking about some horus
or some being coming to save everyone. What we're talking about is people waking
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up to the realization that it's our responsibility to do something about it.
Because if there's no God, well, if there's no God like that,
then who's going to do something about it? Us, right?
But unfortunately, we're too busy amusing ourselves with Facebook and bringing
that at Star Wars or whatever other game we're playing.
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So we don't notice it. We just pretend everything's fine.
But everything's not fine, okay? You've got two very serious problems as a civilization.
We're slowly becoming alive. We're not.
First is we're artificially inflating the economy and greasing the cars for
just a little bit while, just a little while longer with fracking.
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First, they were getting shale oil out. Now they're drilling down into the trying
to get everything out of there, completely flacking out the ground water,
just to keep the party going. It's a great day, and it's a good game.
And the second is the old Aeon didn't end.
The age of imperialism and slavery is still with us.
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The Aeon of Horus, at least if you follow its model, has only been going for,
107 years, 2000, so we still got a long way to go.
The Aeon of Osiris is still in its death row. every war you see in the Middle
East just reiterates that.
So the whole concept of owning other people's property that came with the age
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of imperialism, that didn't happen, but they essentially became corporatized and more refined.
Now it takes the form of corporate abuse of third world resources,
of sweatshops, of military occupation, and drone policing.
In the homeland, just under our noses, it takes the form of private prisons
and incarceration of minorities for drug offenses, to be converted to illegal
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slave labor for corporations.
It takes the form of corporate rape with the environment and the dumping of
toxic chemicals for minority communities.
So if you want to be a magician, and you want to exercise demons,
don't look at all the demons in the gremolas, look at the ones that are falling
off the world for corporations.
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For the nominally free classes, the imperial disease takes the form of white-collar
and debt-truth servitude, enforced by criminal student loans,
political disenfranchisement, and shrinking opportunities for the youngs.
It takes the form of an overpaid, militarized entertainment industry and distraction-focused
internet, which stretches into every aspect of our lives, continually seeking
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to keep us small, powerless, afraid, scattered, and numb.
But all it is, is our old nightmare, the whole day not trying to hold on.
So, even though all this is happening, for the individual constituents of the
system, life is still better than it ever has been, even if our freedom has been traded away.
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And that quality of life depends on simply going along with the plan.
So many individuals focus on social issues here and there, on a certain frictions
between Republicans and Democrats, but to question the overall plan,
to question this death grip that the old religions have on the world.
That's taboo, right? To discuss there are also advanced modern worlds as an
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avattoir, a meat machine. This is forbidden.
To question the two great sins of our culture, that our quality of life depends
on the destruction of the environment and also the rape of the global poor, this is forbidden.
Even the indentured cervix of the American middle class They're shaggy as they
are, stand on the shoulders of the sleeves, blow them.
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The iPhones, time hats, computers, and consumer goods come from sweatshops that
drive their workers to suicide.
The food comes from the corporate plantations, abused migrant workers, and tortured animals.
The pharmaceuticals and cosmetics come from toxic, profit-driven black science and animal testing.
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And sweeping all this under the carpet, the abuse of the environment and the
abuse of the poor, those are the two great lies.
And those run through our entire culture and corrupt everything they touch.
And as far as I can see, there's no easy escape. These are a manifestation of
nature in its purest form.
And in a way, these as well are a manifestation of porous, the dark side.
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Rock who are queets, who got war and destruction.
Horus comes in two forms does anyone know this,
horus has just two forms which is the god of silence,
with by this you you're synchronicity of this this is the sign of silence this is horus horus horus,
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you can look at that as all the good tendencies that they have of horus like
all the hippie awakenings in the 60s all the psychedelic progs the free love the awakening to,
all the stuff we've been talking about, the Hymn of Self-Spirituality,
that's Horus in the positive aspect.
Ra-Hor-Quit is Horus, the god of war and destruction, the one coming to destroy
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all the old stuff, so that something new can be built.
That's the atomic bombs, the AIDS, the you name it, right?
So we're in complex territory here. But Horus is just nature.
Vicious, brutal, red in tooth and claw, non-egalitarian, non-democratic,
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and non-compassionate in its own way, concerned only with who eats who,
like a hawk who snatches a lizard in the desert and tears into it on a rock.
This is reality, and this is nature unveiled. And the great advance of Western
civilization is not that we've overcome this space nature, but that we've learned
to keep our nails clean and our smiles bright and pretend it's not happening,
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to pay other people to keep it out of our consciences.
To pay others to slaughter and prepare our food. To pay others to fight our
wars for energy and then take the blame when we get angry at them for serving our interests.
Keeping our consciences pure by pretending it was Polish or Cheney or Obama
who did the dirty deeds when they were just fulfilling our needs for energy.
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To pay others to enact the sexualities where we might be afraid of exploring for ourselves.
To pay others to entertain us and keep us numb from suitable concoctions to
stay off the demon of self-awareness.
It's not them we're getting back to this we're talking about internalizing responsibility,
this is the process of spiritual maturity,
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there's no God dealt there, there's no external forces telling you what to do.
It's mostly fiction corporations are the same,
it's us and the only way out of the situation is to acknowledge that,
our own responsibility not to revel in it, not to become overwhelmed by it,
but to see it, to see the lies.
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Don't get guilty. Don't get fucked up about it, but see and acknowledge what's happening.
Sit with it. Understand that no one person can change it. The age of Messiahs
is done. It's over. No one's coming. Nope.
No one person can change it, but together all of us might.
And those minor acts of resistance and choosing higher paths when confronted
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with your ability to make those choices can cumulatively change everything.
Mankind raised itself out of the darkness of prehistory to be covered.
It's overcome diseases, overcome some of the more outwardly drool forms of oppression.
The Middle Ages weren't that long ago, and consider how far we've come since.
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The Western ideas of egalitarianism and human rights are only a few centuries old.
Think about that. Think how far we've come since the French Revolution.
How much further can we go, though? new advances in science are occurring at
a rate too fast to keep up with can we can we not maintain that catastrophic
rate of advancing in the field of human dignity and human freedom,
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i say we not only can but we must or as many have told us before our capacity
for technological wizardry will be our demise if not coupled with the wisdom
and focus on basic humanity that will allow us to use our new toys properly.
I do not wish to see a world in which the human is discarded from the transhuman.
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So it's time to grow up. And at least for me,
it's my contention, maybe it's all I do, it's my contention that the raw disciplines
of magic and spirituality are that tool to do that for us, that we can work
with to initiate ourselves, to evolve ourselves.
Magic in a way is how can i practice in addition for 15 years and well i'm trying
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to go to two next week so 16 years um magic is an incredible process it takes
you it's a breakneck journey,
at the end of it it's almost a way of psyching yourself up into a place where
you feel like you take on the whole world at that point all the the trappings are out of the.
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It's a way of convincing yourself, hypnotizing yourself that you are a magical
being as you are, remembering that state.
So it's about recognizing who you are, where you are.
Magic is discipline, plain and simple. It's about disciplining your body,
mind, and spirit to fully become yourself.
And it's a hard, hard ride. There's no easy answers, but the answers are euphoric or your own.
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And in a world in which nothing is certain in
which nobody has it figured out in which all the
old models are crumbling i suspect that
there can be no greater investment of time and effort than in your own spiritual
growth and evolution self-directed because nobody can take that from you no
matter what it's not wasted time ever so it's the job of a stage magician to produce illusions,
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but it's the job of the magus to remove illusions.
So that said, why should you practice magic? Because I would say we need more
people with less illusions.
We need more grown-ups in the world, or at least more growing up people.
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We're becoming an enlightened species, so when are we going to start acting
like it. That's my question.
What are we going to say? Fuck Mighty Cyrus, fuck Democrats and Republicans
at Facebook too, and let's put it all down with the gang of the stars.
So that's my message for today. That's my sermon.
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Thank you. And may all beings that are all detained at peace, freedom, the path is.
Magic.me is waiting for you, M-A-G-I-C-K.me, where you can learn all of the
skills of the Western and Eastern esoteric tradition so that you can get to your goal,
which is discovering your true will and true self in this life so that you can
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become the person that you were always meant to be,
that maybe distractions and other people's expectations have covered up, don't worry.
The gold is still there for you to unveil and bring to the world because that's what we need.
Most of all, you at your best.
All right. Magic.me, M-A-G-I-C-K.me. Lots of love. See you next time.
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